Samir Moradi

Samir Moradi (born 12 May 1978) was an al-Qaeda militant from Iraq who was an insurgent commander during the Iraq War. Moradi's cell was notorious for its effectiveness in the insurgency against the United States and the sectarian government during the war, and he joined the Islamic State in 2014 after the US withdrawal.

Biography
Samir Moradi was born on 12 May 1978 in Mosul, Iraq to a family of Sunni Arabs, and he worked as a truck driver before the 2003 invasion of Ba'athist Iraq by the United States and its allies. Moradi took up arms against the invaders and became the leader of a militia in northern Iraq, fighting against the USA and the Peshmerga. In 2006, Moradi led his militia against the US Marine Corps offensive in Iraqi Kurdistan in Operation Mutraqa, and his forces succeeded in reversing the American and Kurdish attack on Sinjar. Moradi's cell inflicted heavy losses on American and government forces in Iraqi Kurdistan in the following years, and after the end of the Iraq War, he became an Islamic State commander.